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I'm trying to detect the size of the screen I'm starting emacs on, and adjust the size and position the …

How can I create an empty file from emacs, ideally from within a dired buffer? For example, I've just opened …

I've been using Vim as my primary editor for years and tried Emacs several times during that time. Then I …

As a follow-up to this question, it's trying to find out how to do something like this which should be …

I want to hide the welcome screen. My .emacs file: (setq c-basic-offset 4) ; indents 4 chars (setq tab-width 4) ; and 4 char wide for …

Suppose I want to open a file in an existing Emacs session using su or sudo, without dropping down to …

If you launch emacs using the -nw flag to force a console session (rather than an X session if you …

I connect to the remote machine with ssh [email protected]. When I need to open a file in the remote machine …

I have the following code in my .emacs: (if (null window-system) (progn (require 'color-theme) (color-theme-initialize) (color-theme-simple-1))) When I open Emacs …

What is the emacs equivalent of vi's dd? I want to delete the current line. Tried CTRL + k but it …